Imagine you are playing the game of your life when suddenly a spectator shouts aloud the key move of your winning combination before you manage to play it on the board. It happened to Mikhail ...

Every day for a month Muscovites young & old had jammed October Hall to the doors. They followed the play on giant dummy boards suspended over the flag-decked stage. Generals, admirals and diplomats ...

Is it art? Science? Sport? “When you’re playing for the world championship,” says Tigran Petrosyan, 33, “chess may start out as an art or a science. But in the end, physical endurance is so important ...